Interpretation Quotes - Page 21

• It is given to few to add the store of knowledge, to strike new springs of thought, or to shape new forms of beauty. But so sure as it is that men live not by bread, but by ideas, so sure is it that the future of the world lies in the hands of those who are able to carry the interpretation of nature a step further than their predecessors.

  Thomas Huxley

  Lying, Spring, Knowledge

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.109, Library of Alexandria

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• People should support equality because of their religion not despite it. These are the values that openness, inclusion, diversity promote. And they're directly opposed to the kind of enforced closet of certain interpretations of religion.

  Jay Michaelson

  People, Diversity, Support

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• One of the more distant concerns is with the visual interpretation of the music. I find it fascinating but I don't always particularly get involved with it.

  Squarepusher

  Get Involved, Concern, Visuals

  Source: thequietus.com

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• There have been so many interpretations of both Batman and the Joker in the comic books themselves over the decades, from one extreme to the next, and in the media, from one extreme to the next.

  Michael Uslan

  Book, Media, Next

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It is clear that everybody interested in science must be interested in world 3 objects. A physical scientist, to start with, may be interested mainly in world 1 objects--say crystals and X-rays. But very soon he must realize how much depends on our interpretation of the facts, that is, on our theories, and so on world 3 objects. Similarly, a historian of science, or a philosopher interested in science must be largely a student of world 3 objects.

  Karl Popper

  Rays, World, May

  Karl Popper (2005). “Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography”, p.213, Routledge

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• If you agree with an outside person's interpretation of you, that's a happy bit of affirmation. It means you're communicating externally what you believe to be true internally. If you disagree, it helps clarify how you understand yourself. And maybe makes you productively question how to improve your communication skills.

  Heidi Julavits

  Believe, Communication, Mean

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Heidi Julavits". Interview with Angela Stubbs, therumpus.net. October 14, 2012.

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• Philosophers have actually devoted themselves, in the main, neither to perceiving the world, nor to spinning webs of conceptual theory, but to interpreting the meaning of the civilizations which they have represented, and to attempting the interpretation of whatever minds in the universe, human or divine, they believed to be real.

  Josiah Royce

  Real, Philosophical, Civilization

  Josiah Royce, John Edwin Smith (1988). “Josiah Royce: Selected Writings”, p.311, Paulist Press

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• In a way, I think this album is stronger than the last one - in terms of not hiding behind anything. So in a way, I see this album as fiercer than the last. I just find it interesting hearing what people think. If that's people's interpretation, then that's valid and interesting. It's hard to try and neatly place a record like that.

  Sarah Blasko

  Thinking, People, Interesting

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• As soon as that little "ba-da-da-dink-dink" at the beginning of "Under the Sea" starts I think to myself: "Here we go! Let's do it!" When I first got the role, I was very intimidated because people have high expectations. But I have nothing to prove only to share. I'll do my best interpretation of what these songs should sound like in their current incarnations and it's quite an honor.

  Tituss Burgess

  Song, Thinking, Sea

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Christ has given us the most glorious interpretation of life's meaning that man has ever had. The fatherhood of God, the fellowship of the Spirit, the sovereignty of righteousness, the law of love, the glory of service, the coming of the Kingdom, the eternal hope- there was never an interpretation of life to compare with that.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Men, Law, Fatherhood

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• If the world is a progressively realized community of interpretation, then either quadruplictity will drink procrastination or, provided that the nothing negates, boredom will ensue seldom more often than frequently.

  Woody Allen

  Procrastination, Boredom, Community

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• The piece of music is nothing without the act of interpretation. That is the only way it can live, and it's a totally abstract thing.

  Helene Grimaud

  Pieces, Way, Abstract

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014.

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• There are stories of Maui everywhere in the South Pacific. They're different. Different areas have different interpretations. But and so we [with John Musker] fashioned, that was kind of the inspiration and we came up with a very simple basic storyline, focusing on Maui.

  Ron Clements

  Inspiration, Simple, Different

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• I am very suspicious of cameras and dramatic interpretations and the whole Hollywood myth-making process. I don't trust it. I've seen it affect people in bad ways.

  Wayne White

  People, Cameras, Hollywood

  Source: screenanarchy.com

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• When people die and especially when they die tragically, others can't help but get carried away. They come up with their implausible interpretation and usually resort to cheap psychology. A sense of fatalism is the only form of relief left.

  Francesca Marciano

  People, Psychology, Relief

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• Interpretations of Muslim assimilation have gravitated between two arguments: that Muslims will remain as permanent outsiders or that Muslims will blend in with little difficulty at all. Mucahit Bilici demonstrates how wanting these arguments are. Finding Mecca in America takes us into the uncharted territory of what it is actually like to be Muslim immigrants in the United States. I am especially impressed by the study's theoretical depth and empirical insights.

  Robert Wuthnow

  Two, America, Depth

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• I'd say 80% of my activity is engaged in the interpretation of social mood.

  Hugh Hendry

  Mood, Social, Activity

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• My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.

  Thomas Steinbeck

  Father, Social, Function

  "John Steinbeck, Michael Moore, and the Burgeoning Role of Planetary Patriotism" by Thomas Steinbeck, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2010.

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• It's not enough to identify the Superobjective intellectually; you have to justify it, to find the emotional drive behind it. You need your own specific interpretation of the superobjective so that every time you think of it, it makes you emotional and drives you into action.

  Larry Moss

  Emotional, Thinking, Acting

  Larry Moss (2004). “The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor”, p.30, Bantam

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• There's been essentially the same analysis over and over again and very little allowance made for different views and interpretations and reflections.

  Edward Said

  Reflection, Views, Different

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• The ambiguity of poetic language answers to the ambiguity of human life as a whole, and therein lies its unique value. All interpretations of poetic language only interpret what the poetry has already interpreted.

  Hans-Georg Gadamer

  Lying, Unique, Answers

  Hans-Georg Gadamer, Robert Bernasconi (1986). “The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays”, p.71, Cambridge University Press

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• Some people say I'm a gender bender. Whether that's right I leave up for interpretation.

  Olof Arnalds

  People, Gender

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• Interpretation is a task that we repeatedly have to take up and start again from the beginning, Sisyphus-like. But, as Camus said, we must always imagine Sisyphus happy, and this is not so difficult when it's a matter of texts that reveal important truths about being human.

  George Pattison

  Important, Tasks, Matter

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• But if you constantly insist only on your own interpretation, it isn't long before it seems patronizing.

  Martin Schulz

  Long, Patronizing, Seems

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Controlling the interpretation of the Constitution is vital to the leftist agenda of expanding the federal government's power. That means keeping the federal judiciary as liberal as possible and treating the U.S. Supreme Court's liberal legacy as sacrosanct.

  Joseph Sobran

  Mean, Government, Legacy

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